Keeping your desktop, files, and folders organized can be a bit of work, so it helps to have an in-and-out system you can use to always store your work. To make that easier, I created a set of color-coded dropbox icons you can use to sort all your stuff.

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You can see all of the icons above. There are eight colors of the inboxes and the outboxes. Nothing's specifically labeled so you can use them for anything, and they work nicely with OS X's color-coded labels (or an app that adds colored labels to Windows Explorer). The icons come as a zip file containing an iContainer, OS X folders, and individual icons in ICO, ICNS, and PNG format so you should have no trouble using them anywhere. Download freely and use them as you please.